I think the question I get asked the most often from people working with digital images…is how to reduce noise in their images?…They find the noise distracting and they want to eliminate it or at least reduce it.…So let's open up an image that's kind of representative of some of these issues.…I've got this JPEG here.…I'm going to go ahead and open that up in Camera Raw using the Open in Camera Raw button.…We'll go ahead and start by opening up the shadow detail of this image to kind of reveal more detail in the shadows.…But also show that when you use the Fill Light slider, one of the common side effects…there is that Camera Raw is doing such a good job of revealing shadow detail,…but it's also revealing the color noise that's present in the file…that you may not have noticed since the image in certain areas was so black or so dark.…

So you can see here it's plain easy to see the color noise issue, and that's…these random red, green, and blue colorization of the pixels if you will,…and most of the time that's just ugly and distracting.…

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4/30/2010

In Photoshop CS5 Essential Training, author Michael Ninness demonstrates how to produce the highest quality images with fantastic detail in the shortest amount of time, using a combination of Photoshop CS5, Adobe Bridge, and Camera Raw. This course shows the most efficient ways to perform common editing tasks, including noise reduction, shadow and highlight detail recovery, retouching, and combining multiple images. Along the way, Michael shares the secrets of non-destructive editing, utilizing and mastering Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw, layers, adjustment layers, blending modes, layer masks, and much more. Exercise files are included with the course.